It's bro's and not bros (probably) because 'bro' is an abbreviation of 'brother', so the apostrophe takes the place of the missing letters. However, I feel a need to state that 'bros' is, in fact, the standard English (BE anyway) abbreviation for brothers, so I would simply consider this to be grammatically incorrect.

'bro's (or bros)' = brothers (men)
'hoes' = whores (women)

Therefore, men before women. Both grammatically and politically incorrect ;-)

If anyone has any thoughts on why 'hoes' instead of 'ho's' or 'hos', I'd be interested. Sounds rather as though we're dealing with garden implements here...

It's bro's and not bros (probably) because 'bro' is an abbreviation of 'brother', so the apostrophe takes the place of the missing letters. However, I feel a need to state that 'bros' is, in fact, the standard English (BE anyway) abbreviation for brothers, so I would simply consider this to be grammatically incorrect.

'bro's (or bros)' = brothers (men)
'hoes' = whores (women)

Therefore, men before women. Both grammatically and politically incorrect ;-)

If anyone has any thoughts on why 'hoes' instead of 'ho's' or 'hos', I'd be interested. Sounds rather as though we're dealing with garden implements here...

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It's a little stronger than just "men before women." As GrammarFreak mentioned, it's specifically referring to the bond between male friends and how "bros" (I would not spell it with an apostrophe) are more important than "hoes" (in this case a derogatory word for a girlfriend or a girl you're dating or hooking up with).

As grammarfreak said, it's really something guys say to mean that girls/girlfriends come and go but friends (specifically male friends) are always there - so in essence doing something to get a girl that would hurt your friendship with one of your guy friends isn't worth it...

bro = brother(what Black men call each other: "a brother; a bro"--not derogatory)hoe = whore (very derogatory Black slang word used for an "easy" woman, not particularly a professional prostitute--more like slut)

(Both bro and hoe rhyme with go)

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I have no idea why you would say that. I'm not too sure where you grew up, but I'm white; I grew up with both black and white people and I've had both white and black friends who use this. Yea, my black friends might call me bro and, conversely, I call them bro, but with my white friends, it's the same thing. In other words, we all say it and we all say it to each other, our skin color doesn't matter. It's not at all like "nigga" and even then, my black friends will still call me that lol. Anyways, certain white people will have more of a tendency to use "bro", as opposed to, let's say, "dude" and then inversely, certain black people will have more of a tendency to use "dude" and not "bro". Puis en français, c'est pareil ! J'ai un pote africain francophone qui m'appelle "frère" et j'en fais autant ! Pour résumer, rien à voir avec la race

That's my perspective as someone much older than you, jscott--it is true that by the time you grew up, bro was widely used slang for many--especially younger people, but 40 years ago when I was your age, it was definitely part of Black slang.